$11 billion treasure revealed beneath temple in India This Just In Blogs
A court-ordered search of vaults beneath a temple in India has turned up a treasure worth at least $11 billion, according to reports from the Indian state of Kerala.
An inventory of what lies beneath the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram, as reported on the website Business-Standard.com and others, reads like a prop list from an “Indiana Jones” movie:
Rubies, sapphires, emeralds and pearls
Replicas of coconut shells made of pure gold
Hundreds of thousands of gold and silver coins, some dating to the 16th century
Gold chains as long as 18 feet
Solid-gold human figurines and idols
Crowns and pendants
Gold and silver bars